Re: git: f1ef83b857f5 - main - math/octave: switch to Qhull8

From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:55:30 UTC
On 2/18/22 13:59, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 2/18/22 12:45, Thierry Thomas wrote:
>> The branch main has been updated by thierry:
>>
>> URL: 
>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=f1ef83b857f555f0c7a6182ca02002b63cfe80f9 
>>
>>
>> commit f1ef83b857f555f0c7a6182ca02002b63cfe80f9
>> Author:     Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>
>> AuthorDate: 2022-02-18 18:36:53 +0000
>> Commit:     Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>
>> CommitDate: 2022-02-18 18:44:54 +0000
>>
>>      math/octave: switch to Qhull8
> 
> Maybe I should retire qhull, and rename qhull8 to qhull.  Any opinions?
> 

Just please make sure that math/qhull (no version suffix) exists 
continually and is compatible with all dependent ports.

You might consider using qhull-legacy and qhull-devel for previous and 
future versions instead of qhull7, qhull8, etc. This will eliminate the 
need to keep renaming the ports and patching dependents.

This is an ongoing problem since we don't have a mechanism for smoothly 
transitioning when port names change.  ( Pkgsrc has 
SUPERSEDES=previous-name for this purpose. )

Thanks for your work on this,

	JB

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